Drinking Water Or Eating Greasy Food Won't Cure A Hangover

Trending News: It Doesn't Matter If You Drunk A Bucket Of Water Before Bed, It Still Won't Cure Your Hangover

Why Is This Important?

Because a great night has to come with consequences.

Long Story Short

Goodbye hopes for headache free weekend mornings. A new study found that drinking water before, after or even during swigs, does pretty much nothing to prevent hangovers. It also canned the idea that greasy late-night food is the answer.

Long Story

Head pounding like a jack-hammer this morning? Well that sucks, but you can take solace in the fact that there’s nothing you could have done to prevent a hangover — except of course not drinking so much.

Hangovers tend not to be studied too much (where’s the money in it?), but a rare study on the subject was recently presented at a conference in Amsterdam by a team of Dutch and Canadian researchers, according to BBC News.

The researchers studied 826 Dutch students and asked them how they like to cure their hangovers. Over half ate late night face-stuffers (probably kebab or french fries if it’s in Holland) or greasy breakfasts. Meanwhile, two thirds of the students thought drinking water while boozing (you’ve probably seen this recommended a million times) or drinking water beforehand helped cure their hangovers. But in reality, ones who drank water felt a little better, but not much.

"Drinking water may help against thirst and a dry mouth, but it will not take away the misery, the headache and the nausea,” said Dr. Joris Verster, lead author of the study to BBC News.

But the researchers weren’t done curing hangover myths rather than hangovers themselves.

Researchers also asked 789 Canadian students if they got hangovers, and the only ones who had a breezy morning after simply didn’t drink enough. This crushes previous research that suggested 25% of people don’t get hangovers at all.

Finally, some redemption against those annoying people who brag about not getting hangovers.

So is there any cure at all? According to these researchers, it’s a flat out no. And the main reason for that is scientists don’t even know what causes hangovers.

"Research has concluded that it's not simply dehydration — we know the immune system is involved, but before we know what causes it, it's very unlikely we'll find an effective cure,” said Dr. Verster to BBC.